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mannerism
mannerism a style in art and architecture (c.1520-1600), originating in Italy as a reaction against the equilibrium of form and proportions characteristic of the High Renaissance. In Florence, Pontormo and Bronzino, and in Rome, Il Rosso, Parmigianino, and Beccafumi created elegant figures elongate... Read more
Italian art
Italian art works of art produced in the geographic region that now constitutes the nation of Italy. Italian art has engendered great public interest and involvement, resulting in the consistent production of monumental and spectacular works. In addition, Italian art has nearly always been closely ... Read more
portraiture
portraiture the art of representing the physical or psychological likeness of a real or imaginary individual. The principal portrait media are painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. From earliest times the portrait has been considered a means to immortality. Many cultures have attributed ma... Read more
Otto Nicolai
Otto Nicolai , 1810-49, German composer. His opera Il Templario (1840), after Scott's Ivanhoe, was successful, but his masterpiece was the comic opera The Merry Wives of Windsor (1849). He founded (1842) the Philharmonic Concerts, Vienna, for the purpose of presenting adequate performances of ... Read more
Il Sodoma
Il Sodoma , c.1477-1549, Sienese painter, whose real name was Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Born in Vercelli, Piedmont, he went to Rome c.1508. Commissioned by Pope Julius II, he painted frescoes in the Camera della Segnatura in the Vatican. Raphael's frescoes afterward replaced most of his work there. Fo... Read more
Kim Il Sung
Kim Il Sung , 1912-94, North Korean political leader, chief of state of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (1948-94); originally named Kim Sung Chu. While fighting Japanese occupation forces in the 1930s, he adopted the name Kim Il Sung after a famous Korean guerrilla leader of the early 20th... Read more
trompe-l'œil
trompe-l'œil (Fr.: ‘deceives the eye’). Term applied to a painting (or a detail of one) that is intended to deceive the spectator (if only briefly) into thinking that it is a real object rather than a two-dimensional representation of it. Such virtuoso displays of skill often hav... Read more
Ugo Betti
Ugo Betti , 1892-1953, Italian dramatist and poet. He was a judge by profession. His earliest published works were two volumes of poetry (1922 and 1932), but he is remembered for his dramas. He wrote 27 plays. Among the most notable were La padrona [the mistress] (1927), Frano allo scalo nord [l... Read more
Il Rosso
Il Rosso , 1495-1540, Italian painter, one of the founders of mannerism , b. Florence. His real name was Giovan Battista di Iacopo di Gasparre. Influences of Andrea del Sarto and Pontormo are evident in his first work, The Assumption (the Annunziata, Florence), a painting in which there is alread... Read more
Bernardo Strozzi
Bernardo Strozzi , 1581-1644, Italian painter, b. Genoa. He is considered one of the greatest of the generation of early 17th-century Italian painters who made the transition from the mannerist to the baroque style. In 1598, Strozzi became a Capuchin monk, thus earning the names "Il Cappucino" a... Read more

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Il Bronzino
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Il Bronzino , 1503-72, Florentine painter, an...name was Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano. Bronzino was a pupil and adopted son of Jacopo...he became court painter to Cosimo I. Bronzino's sophisticated portraits are cold...
Clouet, François (c. 1515/20–1572)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...drawings. This suggests that by then Clouet may have become familiar with portraits by Titian (born Tiziano Vecelli) and Il Bronzino (born Agnold di Cosimo), perhaps during a trip to Italy. The Lady in the Bath (National Gallery of Art, Washington...
Mannerism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...recognized that anticlassicism could not explain the works of the second generation of artists, like Francesco Salviati, Il Bronzino, and Vasari. As a result of a proposal by Luisa Beccherucci calling for refinement of the definition of the style...
mannerism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of the High Renaissance. In Florence, Pontormo and Bronzino, and in Rome, Il Rosso, Parmigianino, and Beccafumi created elegant...The style was carried into France by Primaticcio, Il Rosso, Niccolò dell'Abbate, and Cellini...

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Deborah Parker, Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Italian Culture; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...surface of his paintings" (11). Il che, si badi, non significa che il Bronzino scriva poesie tematicamente circoscritte...introduzione alla produzione poetica del Bronzino e come modello metodologico per affrontare il difficile nodo delle relazioni tra...
Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; Deborah Parker. Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as...whom Parker contrasts to Bronzino for his consistency as...others -- della Casa, il Lasca, Caro, Varchi...to skewed perspective on Bronzino's canzoniere, which anthologizes...
Self-Portraits with a Twist.(teaching children painting)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...taught to a kindergarten class, it would certainly work well in any elementary grade. VISUALS USED AS INSPIRATION * Il Bronzino, Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo and Her Son. * Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth I. * Hans Holbein, Edward VI as...
AT BRONZINI IN TEANECK
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 11/29/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...on the walls of the high-ceilinged room are three large portraits by the 16th-century Florentine court artist, Il Bronzino, who gives the restaurant its name. Other elements in the room, though, are distinctly modern, including the muted...
The whole city is a gallery as art goes al fresco in York
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/6/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...and Brian Mowbury were enjoying a bottle of red wine at a wine bar. On the wall opposite stood a 5ft tall replica of Il Bronzino's nude masterpiece, An Allegory of Venus and Cupid. "It definitely took us by surprise this afternoon," said...
Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/23/1999; 569 words ; ...Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt), actor, 1887. Deaths: Ladislas V, King of Hungary, 1457; Angelo Allori (Il Bronzino), painter and poet, 1572; Thomas Tallis, organist and composer, 1585; Richard Hakluyt, geographer, 1616; William...
Volponi, Paolo. Last Act in Urbino [Il sipario ducale. Milano: Garzanti, 1975].(ITALIAN BOOKSHELF)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...touches briefly yet deftly upon Il sipario's salient characteristics...of masterful. To begin with, Il sipario's English title, Last...as depicted in portraiture by Bronzino) full of near-illicit anticipation...contesse sorelle traversarono il fianco del loro antenato tenendosi...
Rock solid: after 15 years and three incarnations, Giorgio Baldi hasn't lost its grip on the well-heeled beach crowd.(UPDATE)(Il Ristoranti di Giorgio Baldi )(Restaurant Review)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Magazine; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...visits, maybe ten years, nobody knows the color of the walls. Il Ristoranti di Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica Canyon is a prime...cooked langoustines and calamari cradled in mache. Pastas--bronzino ravioli, spaghetti with bottarga, handkerchief pasta with...
Petrarca: Canoni, esemplarita.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...mythological paintings (e.g., Bronzino's Cosimo de'Medici come Orfeo...Parmigiano's Cupido intaglia il suo arco), are products of...Christopher Celenza, "Petrarca, il latino e la latinita nel Rinascimento...Giuseppe Mazzotta, "Petrarca e il Discorso di Roma" ("Petrarch...
'Private Treasures,' Singular Triumph; Collector's Taste Proves Astute in Drawing Show At the National Gallery
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/13/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...attributed to the flamboyant Sienese known as Il Sodoma -- it captures his art's energy...by the great Italian mannerist Agnolo Bronzino, may be the best thing in the show...and 1927 -- shades of the poignancy of Bronzino's naked "Christ" -- but never makes...